April 19, 2021 By Jessica Mathews / news@whmi.com
A local author and top comic book historian will be featured as part of an upcoming virtual presentation hosted by an area library.
The Salem-South Lyon District Library will virtually host Author Ken Quattro of Saline on Monday, May 3rd at 7pm. His latest book, Invisible Men: The Trailblazing Black Artists of Comic Books, is said to pull back the curtain and share stories of the individuals who broke into a world formerly occupied only by white artists.
Organizers say attendees will be able to hear behind-the-scenes stories of the comic book industry s black contributors, including a descendent of one of George Washington s slaves, a former prisoner of Sing Sing, and Harlem Renaissance artists.
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The Souls of Black Folk, written in 1903 by W.E.B. DuBois, the author describes the African American experience as a Double Consciousness, a psychological condition brought on from living in a world as a Black person through the eyes of racist white people. Comic historian Ken Quattro was profoundly affected by DuBois work while he conducted research for IDW s
Invisible Men: The Trailblazing Black Artists of Comic Books, his new book chronicling the lives and work of 18 Black men the comic book industry not only forgot but barely acknowledged existed.
Men like Matt Baker, Elmer C. Stoner, Orrin C. Evans, and E. Sims Campbell may not be household names, but they are part of the group introduced in
Unmasking the invisible men of the comic book world
These artists paved the way for the heroes we know today
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We all know the big names Superman, Captain America, and Black Panther, thanks to comic books.
The genre has seen a resurgence in the last two decades, but in reality comic books have been around in some form for decades. It first became hugely popular in the 1920s to 1930s. In those days, comics were mostly created by men who have been mostly forgotten, especially the black artists.
However, for Live In The D’s Black History Month celebration, Tati Amare spoke to local author Ken Quattro who is shining a light on those invisible men with his book “The Invisible Men: The Trailblazing Black Artists of Comic Books.”